Still No 1 despite a 55% drop from last week, the monster movie is still running amok in the hiatus ahead of Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity WarA combination of sunny skies and a relatively low number of new releases a week ahead of the opening of Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War combined to lay waste to the UK box office.
Takings overall tumbled 55% from the previous frame, delivering the third-worst weekend of the past 12 months in the UK market, and the worst since early December.
Apart from A Quiet Place, which fell 46%, and Black Panther, which fell 48%, every film in the Top 25 fell by at least 50% from the weekend before.
Top title Rampage fell 55%, earning £1.41m in its second session for a £6.48m total.
With kids back at school after the Easter holidays, family films fell particularly hard, with Peter Rabbit, for example, dropping by 76%.
Thursday, and Infinity War, can’t
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